School moms are so shitty to dads. The moms in my area would NOT know what to do with a stay at home dad. It’s so far out of their “husband works in finance, mom stays home, never works again” model. They have very gender segregated lives— women hang together, dudes hang together. I know my husband hates it, he’s…

Also in a nice LA suburb. I’m sorry that happened to you guys. These things shouldn’t surprise me or anyone, but it’s always amazing how ignorant and shitty people can be, even when their kids are within earshot.

Sometimes they don’t come out and say it— it’s more like, you’re not interested in petty stupid neighborhood/school drama and details, and you try to bring up politics, current events, actually discuss the book at book club. And they’re like, tee hee, I mostly read People magazine, can you believe Selena Gomez!!??

That makes me feel better. I feel like every other family/couple is doing all sorts of social shit with the other parents all weekend. We’re always going to dinner with just our kids. Shit, those people go on vacations together too— the thought makes my husband and me shudder.

We keep noticing that we keep making friends with the newcomers to town. They are almost always more friendly and they just bring a new outlook and vibe. Whereas the long time residents (many of whom grew up there) are insular and not terribly interesting— the guy is in Finance, wife doesn’t work, huge house, 2-3…

Ha! Ditto. My kids are a little older, so I more have moms who are intrigued/disdainful of my lack of helicopter because I don’t go to the weird parent education night at the middle school where some rando educational lady lectures at you about “letting your kid fail.” Uh, I think I have that one under control,…

I made friends with the school moms when the kids were about kindergarten age. There was one group with a distinct planner/ringleader, and we got loosely folded into that. So loosely that it didn’t really stick. All but one of those moms stays at home, so they’ve got quite a bit going on while the kids (all school…

The law on this is interesting. I’m wondering if the employer would have an obligation to accommodate that (not shaking hands). I’d argue no, but I’m not sure how that would turn out. Also, the no shaking hands thing is often an Orthodox Jewish thing. It’s not because of a fear of seduction- it’s because the woman…

I know a couple like this— married over 15 years, two school aged kids. Both of them talk about this sort of thing ALL the time. He doesn’t want her to talk to the single dad down the street. She doesn’t want him to do triathlon training with the married mom from our school. OMG, someone not wearing their wedding…

Somehow they find them. I only know one ultra right wing Trump supporter, and he knows some dude who works at JPL and says it’s all solar flares. Never mind that he was telling this to my husband, who has a phd in engineering and works at a similar science and engineering think tank. Because crackpot friend must be…

Such a good choice. Where are you going? Now that I’ve been married 18 years, travel is so much more important than, like, plates.

I used to think it was tacky but then I realized all the house shit I registered for 18 years ago was dumb. And that travel is the best thing to spend money on.

I will admit this isn’t my finest parenting, but my 11 year old daughter watches this shit and is obsessed with it. As a 44 year old, I am utterly fascinated by the moms on the show. It’s just an hour of overly made up, hair extensioned and over-dressed women in their 40s and 50s screaming bloody murder at each other…

Right? I don’t think that part fazed me when I read it in college or whatever.

My 13 year old is going to go nuts when I tell him that. He stole The Hunger Games from the bookshelf and read it in his room in third grade. He gets super pissed when they make him read some old-timey book a dog, or about kids in the South who play in the river.

It pops up on the side, where there are normally rotating new stories. I was wondering why we were talking about christmas.

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Nah, it totally depends on the person and you can still get both wrinkles and skin cancer. Plus it’s such an easy thing to do— wash face, put on lotion with SPF. You get to the point where it feels weird not to— you feel dry.

I know, it’s embarrassing to see them shill so hard when their original profession is something to be proud of, as opposed to like “check me out, I make money without really doing anything but talking to my friends about this great product line!”

Yea Stella and Dot is so not worth the money. R&F is fine, it’s more the mosquito-like social media tactics I have an issue with.